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Show AN APPRECIATION. Mr. Editor: I would rather have a fragrant flower handed me by a friend than to have a cart load on my casket. The press, the press, with keenest zest, and e'er prophetic ken, marks well the fittest and the best and makes and unmakes men. Some years ago, I stood on the beach at Los Angeles, then at San Diego, then at the Golden Gate and at Seattle, Seat-tle, and, as I watched the incoming and the outgoing tides, I said: "0, restless humanity;" for all around me were the restless tides of humanity surging here and there and over as unstable as the great tide of the sea before me. And, today, as I look back over a long life of strenuous activity and bring to mind the myriads with whom I havo come in contact, I am led again to say, O, -restless humanity, unstable as water. How reassuring to look out over the restless sea and note the great Pacific liners stnndlng immovable- and unaffected by the great tumult tum-ult around them, giving security and confidence to all. So a few days ago when Doctor Conroy was named as one well fitted to aland in our legislative hall and stem the tide of restless and often visionary minds around him, 1 said, how like the liner on the sea or the sturdy oak in the forest The doctor Is one of many in Ogden today who are ovorburdened with tho duties of their professions but may he not reconsider his withdrawal with-drawal from the duties asked of him and allow his name to remain. J. A. SMITH. |